The Empire of Chance
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
Gerd Gigerenzer
Zeno Swijtink
Theodore Porter
Lorraine Daston
Lorenz Kruger
John Beatty
51 €
The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, in the last three centuries. It connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine polling and baseball.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Oct 1990
Dimensions: 229 x 155 x 24 mm
ISBN: 9780521398381
